"There's always someone worse than you. You've just got to do the best you can out of the situation.

"Staying positive is the main thing. It can be hard sometimes and easier other days.

"You've just got to learn how to deal with it."

The 30-year-old sustained a T7 paralysis, which means he has movement in the upper half of his body but not his lower, when he fell from Nellie Deen in the four-horse pile-up that led to the abandonment of the meeting at Kempton.